SCOTT BRADLEY | HEAD BASEBALL COACH | PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Baseball Head Coach Interview Series By Showball Baseball

Scott Bradley, the Robert H.B. Baldwin '42 Head Coach of Baseball, finished his 23rd season with Princeton in 2020. He currently has a career record of 413-528-2. Bradley has led the Tigers to seven Ivy League titles, seven NCAA tournament appearances and 11, 20-win seasons.
Bradley crossed the 200-win mark during the 2006 season to become the fourth Princeton baseball coach to register 200 wins. His 2004 squad won an Ivy League championship and were the last Princeton team to win an NCAA tournament game. He has led Princeton to two of its three NCAA tournament wins, against The Citadel in 2001 and Virginia in 2004.
Bradley, who spent nine seasons as a left-handed-hitting catcher in the major leagues for the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds, came to Princeton after a year as an assistant coach at Rutgers University. He is a 1982 graduate of the University of North Carolina and an Essex Fells, N.J., native.
Bradley was the second pick of the Yankees (NFL Hall of Famer John Elway was their first pick) in the 1981 draft. He broke into the major leagues wearing Yankee pinstripes in 1984 and stayed in the majors until retiring in 1992. Bradley played 604 games in the big leagues, hitting .257 with 18 home runs and 184 RBIs in 1,648 at-bats. He also played outfield, third base and was a designated hitter. Bradley caught Randy Johnson’s first no-hitter while the two were teammates in Seattle in 1990. Bradley served as a minor league player/coach in the Atlanta Braves and Colorado Rockies organizations after his playing days.
Bradley played college baseball at North Carolina, graduating in 1982. He was named to the ACC’s 50th Anniversary Team in 2004
Bradley and his wife, Mary, live in Pennington. The couple have three sons: Kevin, Kyle and Scott.